AuthorTopic: [SOLVED] Xine DVD playback issues (Read 10608 times)

Just installed Vector SOHO 5.8 Final on my old win98 box (and hopefully didn't destroy my win98 partition in the process) for use as a media box. Obviously then, playback of DVDs is going to be a fairly major issue. Tried to play one of my DVDs, sound was a bit spotty and the video was horribly garbled (green squares and such). Media isn't something I've ever really fiddled with before, so any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Your video driver isnt right. Try re-detecting video through VASM. You will need to upgrade libxine xine-lib, the xine engine, in order that audio and video be synchronized. Also, libgcrypt must be version libgcrypt-1.2.3 but that usually is the default libgcrypt in VL 5.8 SOHO.

Ah, excellent, I'll try that. Thanks muchly. As a point of interest, I've got an old nVidia card in there, from back in the days of when 32MB was awesomely powerful.

On further examination, I'm thinking the open-source nVidia drivers may be a source of problems. Currently putting the legacy ones in to see if we get a different result. Also, thank God for console and slapt-get.

DVD plays in MPlayer - all well and good. Now, if I scene-skip to the next scene, playback continues, all fine and dandy. If I don't, MPlayer appears to have a small fit and playback stops. It's not that MPlayer crashes, playback just stops. I can't figure out what's causing this, and checking settings on my compaq vector box doesn't reveal anything that appears to control that. So again, any help would be much appreciated.

At 500 MHz, you should use Xine for DVD playback. Also, VLC does well for DVD playback on low-end computers, but Xine is a little lighter than VLC. You might wanna get VLC for .FLV (downloaded youtube vid) playback--nothing does it better.

Operation instructions for DVD playback with Xine:1. insert DVD in drive2. Vector (start) > Multimedia > click Xine, to start Xine gui. There are two components, the display screen and controls. If controls are not visible, right click the display screen and select "Show controls"3. click DVD button on lower edge of controls gui.

libdvdread: Attempting to retrieve all CSS keyslibdvdread: This can take a _long_ time, please be patient

libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB at 0x0000012flibdvdread: Elapsed time 0libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.VOB at 0x00000190libdvdread: Elapsed time 0libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB at 0x0000cb5blibdvdread: Elapsed time 0libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_0.VOB at 0x0000dba9libdvdread: Elapsed time 0libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_1.VOB at 0x0000dbf6libdvdread: Elapsed time 0libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_0.VOB at 0x0000f6d6libdvdread: Elapsed time 0libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_1.VOB at 0x0000f723libdvdread: Elapsed time 0libdvdread: Found 3 VTS'slibdvdread: Elapsed time 0Incidentally, video is choppy, audio is perfect.

VLC seems to be the opposite - perfect video and choppy audio Here's the current output

libdvdread: Attempting to retrieve all CSS keyslibdvdread: This can take a _long_ time, please be patient

libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB at 0x0000012flibdvdread: Elapsed time 0libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.VOB at 0x00000190libdvdread: Elapsed time 0libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB at 0x0000cb5blibdvdread: Elapsed time 0libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_0.VOB at 0x0000dba9libdvdread: Elapsed time 0libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_1.VOB at 0x0000dbf6libdvdread: Elapsed time 0libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_0.VOB at 0x0000f6d6libdvdread: Elapsed time 0libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_1.VOB at 0x0000f723libdvdread: Elapsed time 0libdvdread: Found 3 VTS'slibdvdread: Elapsed time 0[00000321] a52 decoder: A/52 channels:2 samplerate:48000 bitrate:224000No accelerated IMDCT transform found[00000359] a52 decoder: A/52 channels:2 samplerate:48000 bitrate:224000No accelerated IMDCT transform found[00000297] main playlist: stopping playback

Checking Htop while testing the three options showed that when the DVD played, the CPU was getting maxed out in all cases. Conceivably, shutting off a few services might help in that, but I'm uncertain a) how to or b) which services I can remove.

Alternatively, I can try using 5.8 Standard, but by all accounts 5.8 SOHO runs faster than Standard even with KDE. So yes, uncertain.

Again, any help is greatly appreciated.

EDIT: Tried playing a few movie files (admittedly, over a network connection) and got similar results - MPlayer fails with same (gui) error, VLC seems to track audio perfectly while dropping a few video frames occassionally (small but noticeable) and xine (after the initially slow startup) exhibits video-audio desync. Starting to think I'm asking too much from this old girl

I think the first mplayer problem can be solved installing some codecs from the repo.The sync problem with Xina has been solved by nubcunubdo before upgrading xinelib, you can do it with gslapt or slapt-get, if you like.You can disable the services you dont use. My printer is death, so I disable the cups daemon, I dont share files with windows, so samba is out, and so on. You can use VASM to disable the services you dont use. Is a safe operation and you can get back easily if you want to.We recommend using XFCE, if you have less than 256mb of ram, I think ram is more important than cpu here.

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